"Hawkwind, considered the first space rock band, came to prominence in the British underground with their first, eponymous album, an intoxicating brew of psychedelic and hard rock with a nod toward what would become the overreaching theme of their career: science fiction mysticism both sincere and tongue-in-cheek. They were through with the hyper-idealism of the hippies' psychedelic values but still believed rock had the power to be a spiritual beacon...Their second album, In Search of Space, included a minifanzine as the linear notes, complete with astrological tables, psychedelic collages and pulp-comics artwork, along with the logs of the 'spacecraft Hawkwind.' The logs document the travels of stoned alien astronauts who listen to Jimi Hendrix on their way to planet earth. The final entry is a religious evocation of space: 'And now I believe in the supreme and mystic darkness of nothing, in the deepest reaches of the immaculate void...in the incomprehensible infinity of untold nothing, in absolute nothing.'"
- From Season of the Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal